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* pun with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Humpty Dumpty]
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* '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself'''
* "hillhead" refers to a mythological sleeping giant with his head being [[Howth]] and his feet sticking up in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park Phoenix Park].
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0221&isize=L&q1=Humpty%20Dumpty Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''Humpty Dumpty''' → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
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* '''humped, humpbacked''' → [[HCE]] is a hunchback
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* '''hillhead:''' Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath [[Howth]] (Danish: ''hoved'', "head") and his feet sticking up in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park Phoenix Park]
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* '''humped self''' → [[HCE]]
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* '''humus:''' (''Latin'') earth; the ground
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* '''inhumare:''' (''Latin'') to bury in the ground → Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a giant interred in the Dublin landscape
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* '''Humphrey''' → [[Earwicker|Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker]] ([[HCE]])
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[[Category: HCE]]

Latest revision as of 15:31, 28 April 2012

  • Humpty Dumpty → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
  • humped, humpbackedHCE is a hunchback
  • hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish: hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
  • humped selfHCE
  • humus: (Latin) earth; the ground
  • inhumare: (Latin) to bury in the ground → Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a giant interred in the Dublin landscape